Falcon by Kendig Ronie

Author:Kendig, Ronie [Kendig, Ronie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: thriller, Age Range 2 Older Audience, Romance, Suspense, Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781634093798
Amazon: B07FYXB865
Goodreads: 32021430
Publisher: Shiloh Run Press
Published: 2015-05-01T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 21

Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan

3 April—1750 Hours

This is some kind of messed up,” Sal said as he and Dean headed back to the briefing room where they’d left Raptor.

“Hooah.”

“It’s like there’s this tangle of trip wire around our feet and a barrel of explosives just waiting for us to blow ourselves back to the States.”

“Then let’s avoid stepping on it.”

Sal nodded then glanced over his shoulder. Cassie trailed them by a half-dozen feet. That she wasn’t talking, fighting, and arguing told him the meeting with Phelps knocked the wind out of her.

Knocked it out of him, too. She’d lied to him, to the team about her job. Where did her lies end? Just when he’d started wondering if they could work things out, he got broadsided by another lie. Not exactly the working material for a relationship.

Dean stopped outside the Command building and reached for the door handle. “Talk to her.”

“About what?”

“Make sure she knows we’re not done. She has a mess to clean up with us.”

“Dean—”

But he was already inside the building and the door was closing. Sal popped it with a grunt.

“What’s wrong?” Cassie asked, her voice devoid of feeling. No, not devoid—smothered.

Gritting his teeth, he turned around. Stared at the ground. “They’re not happy. I’m not happy.”

“Who is happy, Sal?” She held fast with those blue eyes. Puddles of grief and anger. “Everything I thought I was working for has been a lie.”

With a nod, he almost smiled. “I can relate—any more lies you want to come clean with before we go on?”

“It was my job, Sal. You don’t tell your mom what you’re doing out here on a daily basis, do you?”

“Hey. Stick to the facts, to this mission.” Man, he hated her under-the-radar attack on his mom. Low blow. “My mom isn’t relying on me to protect her or depending on me to be straight up in something that could mean life or death. I am—they are!”

Cassie looked away.

“My team is going to put their lives in your hands.” He moved closer again, his boots crunching on the pebbled path. “And so help me God, if you have any more lies up that sleeve of yours—”

“I don’t!”

“Good!” Silence snapped through the evening, chilled and desperate. He roughed a hand over his beard and groaned. “I don’t know what to do you with you, Andra. I want to tell my team they can trust you, but”—he shook his head again and shrugged—“I don’t know that they can. I don’t know that I can.”

She flinched and again looked away.

“I want to. Why? I have no idea.” He inched closer and hooked her arm, bringing her around. She wore a floral perfume that snaked up and coiled around his brain, squeezing off oxygen. “Can I trust you? Can I believe that there aren’t any more lies? That you aren’t hiding something else from me?”

Her blue eyes held misery. “You? Or your team?”

Sal felt his life caving in. His resolve sinking beneath the quicksand of their past. He was tired of this fight.

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